We linger alone
Bodies confused
Memories misused
As we run from the day
To a strange night of stone
-Jim Morrison 1967
blank projects is proud to host the fourth solo
exhibition of critically acclaimed painter Jan-Henri
Booyens. STRANGE DAYS is a body of work created in
2012 in Pretoria that expands the abstract/landscape
iconographic structures Booyens developed in his
previous bodies of work, TECTONIC (2010) and THE
MATT SPARKLE(2008).
In STRANGE DAYS these structures evolve into isolated
forms that vary from the severely monochrome to the
exuberantly polychrome. His abstracted compositions
evoke landscapes built on systems of fractal
geometry, and yet they retain the spontaneity of an
intuitive creation process. Booyens’ reluctance to
completely undermine figurative representation adds
to this body of work’s feeling of internal dissent, a
conflict between the order of recognizable forms and
the vitality of chaos.
Bodies confused
Memories misused
As we run from the day
To a strange night of stone
-Jim Morrison 1967
blank projects is proud to host the fourth solo
exhibition of critically acclaimed painter Jan-Henri
Booyens. STRANGE DAYS is a body of work created in
2012 in Pretoria that expands the abstract/landscape
iconographic structures Booyens developed in his
previous bodies of work, TECTONIC (2010) and THE
MATT SPARKLE(2008).
In STRANGE DAYS these structures evolve into isolated
forms that vary from the severely monochrome to the
exuberantly polychrome. His abstracted compositions
evoke landscapes built on systems of fractal
geometry, and yet they retain the spontaneity of an
intuitive creation process. Booyens’ reluctance to
completely undermine figurative representation adds
to this body of work’s feeling of internal dissent, a
conflict between the order of recognizable forms and
the vitality of chaos.
